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| Gertrude Hay Hoffman |
Kitty Hayes |
| Gertrude Hoffman |
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Founder and choreographer for
the 'Hoffman Girls.' The 'Hoffman Glide' (a social dance)
was named after her. Her choreography and special dance effects
brought her high praise. In 1912 she starred in The New York Winter
Garden Company of 125 Performance at The Parson's Theater, Springfield,
MA. Thursday, Jan. 30.
Famous for her role as well
as her dancing in Salome.
Later, for a brief period in her career, Gertrude would do impersonations
of various actors and dancers such as Cohen, Tanquay, Foy, Held,
Barrymore etc., which was highly popular at the time, so much
so that one
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cited it as "the
great army" of mimics who descended upon the vaudeville stage
beginning in the early 1900s.
Gertrude helped to make Salome
a popular role in the early 1900's. She stated in an Article that
she patterned Salome after Maude Allen's (2/26/1909 - Cass City
Chronicle.) However, there was quite a stir with her "Vision
of Salome costume at many theatre houses. In Kansas City, her
show was stopped due to her indecent dancing and costume, or almost
lack therof, one Jackson county judge is qouted as saying "Obnoxious
to public morals" and "replete with immoral suggestions
and ought not to be tolerated in a Christian community."
The Gertrude Hoffman Girls were a Tiller
type formation group that used a type of athletic acrobatic transformation
of the chorus girl with kicks, leaps etc. Hoffman was once in
a law suit by Gregory C. Gusman (a dance teacher) over
the teaching of the Rumba
to the girls which they won.
There was another Gertrude Hoffmann that was an German American
Actress about the same time.
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Max Hoffmann |
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Dance Types |
Dancers |
Music Titles |
| Ballet |
Dolly White |
A bunch of Rags |
| Belly
Dance |
Hoffman Girls |
Bom-Ba-Shay |
| The Hoffman Glide |
Julian Eltinge |
Don't Care (Salome) |
| Modern
Dance |
Theodore
Kosloff |
Heaven Born Banner, the (1906) |
| Rumba
(she learned it from: Rita and Fito) |
Richard Ordynski (Sumurun) |
Hoffmann Glide, Gertruse (Max Hoffman,
1912) |
| Salome |
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In Washington (Lyrics 1906 Ziegfeld)
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Kiss, Kiss, Kiss (1910) |
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Linda
Lee (Sheet Music Cover) |
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On San Francisco Bay (1907 Gertrude) |
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Sadie, My Creole Lady (Gertrude on cover
1902) |
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Take Me To The Swanee Shore (1912) |
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Night Clubs |
Theaters |
Stage |
| Winter Garden |
44th Street Theatre (1927) |
1903 - Punch and Judy Co. |
| Casino de Paris, NY* (the girls) |
Aerial Gardens (1907) |
1903 - The Billionaire |
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Alhambra (London 1913) |
1904 - Down The Pike |
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Liberty Theatre (1905) |
1904 - Me, Him and I |
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Lyric Theatre (1913) |
1905 - Duke of Duluth, the |
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New Amsterdam Theatre (1906) |
1905 - Moonshine (Chor) |
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Orpheum Theater III (9/29/1907) |
1905 - Tom, Dick and Harry |
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Palace Theatre (Sumurun) |
1905 - When We were Forty-One |
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Paradise Roof Theatre (1903) |
1906 - The Man From Now (Music) |
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Parson's Theater |
1906 - The Persian Model |
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Vancouver Opera House |
1907 - The Honeymooners |
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Winter Garden Theatre (1912) |
1907 - Salome |
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1907 - Ziegfeld Follies of 1907 |
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1912 - Broadway to Paris, From (w/ Max) |
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1913 - The Apollos (London) |
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1925 - Artists and Models (the girls ) |
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1926 - A Night in Spain (also Directed) |
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1930 - Vanities of 1930 (June 7th) |
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1957 - La Saison des Ballets Russes |
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danse le revue* (the girls) |
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Her Husband's Wife |
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Cléopâtre (Ballet w/ Hosloff) |
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Sumurun (Arabian Nights) |
Gertrude Hoffman Girls / Dancers |
| Billy
Macon (Lyric 1913) |
Gertrude
Roland (Lyric 1913) |
Marguerette
Crittenden (Lyric 1913) |
| Catherine
Wilson (Lyric 1913) |
Helen
Kerlin (Lyric 1913) |
Marjorie
Roland (Lyric 1913) |
| Deforest
La Fleur (Lyric 1913) |
Jack
Clinton (Lyric - revue 1913) |
Mildred
La Gay (Lyric 1913) |
| Doris
Lloyd (Lyric 1913) |
Julia
Carle (Lyric 1913) |
Olga
Zalceff (sp?) (Lyric 1913) |
| Emma
Cunningham (Lyric 1913) |
Lee
Chapin (Lyric 1913) |
Rochen
Baker (Lyric 1913) |
| Evelyn
Hall (Lyric - revue 1913) |
Lillian
Drewry (Lyric 1913) |
Stafford
Pemberton (Lyric - revue 1913) |
Films |
Television |
Publications |
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1952 - My Little Margie |
2/26/1909 - Cass City
Chronicle |
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1955 - Alfed Hitchcock Presents |
3/2/1909 - Kansas City Journal (rebuttal) |
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1958 - Schlitz Playhouse |
3/5/1909 - Kansas City Journal (banned) |
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4/14/1910 - Boston Tech Newspaper |
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2/27/1914 - Photoplay Magazine |
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8/11/1918 - Vanity Magazine |
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